Project Runway Blog

Four for you, "Project Runway"! You go, "Project Runway"! This morning, the 2015 Emmy nominations were announced and of course, "Project Runway's" name was in the mix. The show was nominated for:Outstanding Reality-Competition ProgramHeidi Klum & Tim Gunn for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program Outstanding Cinematography for Reality Programming ("The Rainway")Outstanding Picture Editing...

With just about a month left until the Season 14 premiere (August 6, y'all!), it's time to meet the designers hoping to land a spot on the "Project Runway" winners roster. And they are:Amanda Perna: 28, Delray Beach, FLAshley Nell Tipton: 24, San Diego, CABlake Patterson: 24, Los Angeles, CACandice Cuoco: 27, San Francisco, CADavid Giampiccolo: 31, Hollywood, CADuncan Chambers-Watson: 25, Auckland, New ZealandEdmond Newton:...

"Project Runway" Season 13 champ Sean Kelly chatted with me this morning fresh off his win about growing up in New Zealand, his Fashion Week collection, working with Kini, the drama with Korina, and more. Check out the full interview after the cut, and don't forget to tune in for the Season 13 Reunion Special on Thursday at 8/7c (followed by the premiere of a new season of "Project Runway All Stars" at 9/8c).You’re...

We pick up right where we left off last week, with Kini in a huge pickle about his sudden need to rework half his collection is just a day and a half. Dude's freaking out. Char has to replace four looks and infuse the remaining garments with more youth and fun. "You gotta make it seem as though you would wear every single look," Tim says, recommending Char ditch her fluttery teal dress and pink jumpsuit. Amanda needs...

Legendary designer Oscar de la Renta died Monday at his home in Kent, CT. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2006, but said last year that was "totally clean." He was 82.Known as the "Sultan of Suave," his career has spanned more than five decades. He became internationally known in the 1960s as one of the couturiers for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and has worked for fashion houses Lanvin and Balmain. Most recently, de la...

So! Much! Happened! This week! First, Tim and Heidi tell our final four -- Char, Kini, Sean, and Amanda -- that they will each have $9000 and five weeks to complete a ten-look collection to be shown at New York Fashion Week. But first, the fun part: They'll be treated to a trip to Rome, Italy, to find inspiration for their collections.
The quartet pack up and head out that same day, along with their mentor and now...

Tim wakes our five remaining designers in the wee hours of the morning, as is his wont, and invites them up to the roof of their apartment building. Perched high above the city where no one care hear the designers scream "LET ME GO TO FASHION WEEK," he and Brian Bolain, Corporate Marketing Manager for Lexus, introduce their final task.
Challenge: Design a "street chic" look inspired by New York City. It should be something...

Our final six designers wake up to a video message from Heidi directing them to a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where Tim is waiting in front of a series of storage lockers. He wastes no time telling the designers that this is going to be a team challenge, and he whips out the button bag to pair 'em up. Everyone wants to be matched with super-sewer Kini, but Amanda lucks out. Emily and Korina are put together,...

We're inching ever closer to Fashion Week, and the designers are hyperaware of it. They're starting to feel the pressure that comes from knowing that they really might be the next one auf'd. They file into the workroom, where Mary Kay Global Makeup Artist Luis Casco and Tim are waiting to outline the next challenge.
Challenge: Inspired by Mary Kay's campaign, "Discover what you love," the designers must make over a...

The designers herd into the American Girl Place store in New York City and my ears immediately perk up. Like many late-'80s babies, I was SUPER into American Girl during my childhood. I had one of the make-your-own dolls who I named Tina and who I outfitted with random accessories from all the other characters' period-specific ensembles: Samantha's 1920s four-poster bed, Molly's '40s clothes, Felicity's horse ("Tina loves...